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About the job Senior Data Engineer

Senior Data Engineer
Dubai, UAE

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will own and evolve the backend data platform that powers analytics and reporting across the business. You'll design and operate ETL/ELT pipelines, engineer SQL Server environments, orchestrate workflows, model data for analytics, and enforce governance and CI/CD standards. This is a hands-on engineering role with high ownership, technical depth, and direct business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

Data Platform & Engineering

  • Own the data engineering backlog and deliver scalable data solutions.

  • Build and maintain Airflow DAGs for ingestion, transformation, and data quality.

  • Develop production-grade T-SQL with strong performance tuning.

  • Administer SQL Server: security, indexing, backup/restore, job scheduling.

Data Modeling & Automation

  • Design star/snowflake models, SCDs, and conformed dimensions.

  • Automate workflows using Python and Power Automate.

  • Implement RBAC, data validation tests, freshness/quality checks.

Delivery & Collaboration

  • Enforce GitHub workflows (branching, PRs, code reviews) and CI/CD pipelines.

  • Maintain documentation, release notes, and deployment runbooks.

  • Partner with stakeholders and coach BI developers/analysts on modeling and SQL best practices.

Technical Requirements:

  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field.

  • 8+ years in data engineering with strong backend focus.

  • Expert T-SQL and SQL Server performance/DBA skills.

  • Hands-on Airflow and Python experience.

  • Strong data modeling (star/snowflake, SCDs) and governance foundations.

  • Experience with GitHub and CI/CD.

  • Forex/CFD or online trading domain experience is required.

Person Specification:

  • Strong communication skills and ability to simplify technical concepts.

  • Analytical, detail-oriented, and quality-driven.

  • Proactive, ownership-focused, and comfortable working independently.

  • Collaborative team player with mentoring experience.

If youre passionate about building reliable, scalable data platforms in a high-impact environment, then APPLY NOW!